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Fight Club
- Narrated by: Jim Colby
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
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Summary
A true modern classic, Fight Club is a darkly comic tale of love, rivalry and the lengths men will go to when they need something to make them feel alive.
Every weekend, in basements and car parks across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything.
Fight Club is the invention of Tyler Durden, projectionist, waiter, and dark, anarchic genius. And it's only the beginning of his plans for revenge on the world....
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- Simon
- 11-06-17
A Lesson Learned
The first rule about "Fight Club" is not to judge a book by its cover, title or the film trailer. I hadn't really bothered with it because a book about clubs set up for blokes to simply fight sounded a little on the basic side for me . . . but when Audible had it as their daily deal I thought "Why not?", I needed something that would not engage my brain too much.
CLANG! Utterly wrong Simon. The troubled lead in this one and the scattered exploration of his hugely troubled mind is a genuine literary journey. There is far more depth to this than meets the eye. I was really impressed by how the opening scene and the ending bring things together with the same scenario and almost the same words yet meaning something so different.
I still don't think this will appeal to everyone but one thing is is not is a simple book about blokes knocking each other about for kicks!
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- Mr
- 20-12-14
The first rule of Fight Club...
I imagine a lot of people who listen to this novel have seen the film first. I did. For me the joy here was unpicking the twist of the narrative - which I won't spoil here - but seems even cleverer in written form. The film is very faithful to the text, but I appreciated having details and episodes fleshed out further. It certainly packs a punch.
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- Jon
- 11-10-11
Read the book
While the narration of Jim Colby is fine, it fails to reach the same heights as Edward Norton's narration in the film adaptation (of which I am a huge fan). I do realize that this is an unfair comparison but the damage is done - by watching the film - and the audio-book suffers for it, even though the text is excellent and Jim Colby narration is good.
I would recommend reading the book instead of listening to it.
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- Mr
- 02-01-13
better to read
I love this as both book and film and have read and seen both a number of times now. However the audio book was let down by the narrater, Jim Colby's reading was good enough but he just didnt hit the mark this time. if you havent read the book you should get this but if you have its not worth bothering.
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- E
- 29-03-17
Good story crap recording
The narrator is rubbish and the volume changes between chapters. Doesn't do the book justice.
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- Col
- 04-05-16
Really good listen
Turns out the film was very true to the book.
If you've seen the movie, you will enjoy reliving it through this well performed audio book.
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- Alastair
- 07-05-15
Masculinity, truth and the madness of modernity!
Great stuff, a modern classic on everything that is wrong with society and both the successes and failures that masculinity suffers in modern society. This is an existential journey that most men will relate to in one way or another. A sojourn that I feel drawn to again and again helping those that read it to stay in the moment and push themselves. A must for every modern man!
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- Paul S. Turner
- 04-08-14
I wanted to breathe smoke
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
oh dear a great book let down by poor narration
What was one of the most memorable moments of Fight Club?
all of it shame about the audio book
How did the narrator detract from the book?
totally ruined it
Do you think Fight Club needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
fight club 2 is now being written as a graphic novel
Any additional comments?
please please get edward norton to read this
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- Angela
- 12-04-13
Sleazy and grubby. An excellent book!
I loved the movie and enjoyed the book thoroughly. This is one of those occasions where seeing the movie first might not have been a good idea because the film seems to have put the book on screen to perfection.
Of course, the movie makes the LOOK fairly glam, just verging on the grubbiness and filth of the book, but the story was up there, complex and distorted as it was on the page.
I was surprised to see the ending was somewhat different, but preferred the novel, although I can see it did not necessarily have the LOOK of the film, it still hit me as a reader just as hard.
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- Thomas Salt
- 15-11-16
Brilliant
Narrator could not have been better. I've loved the movie forever so I thought it was about time I read/listened the book. Brilliant!
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